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January 20, 1919

**MEMORANDUM ON THE NON-EVICTION OF THE FAMILY OF L. S. SHTIKH**

The eviction of the family of Dr. Shtikh (Myasnitskaya, No. 22, or Bankovskii Lane, No. 2) is to be halted, and this family is not to be evicted henceforth pending special instructions, in view of the petition of Comrade Angelica Balabanova and her certification that there are several family members in Soviet service and several are gravely ill.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

1 The eviction of the family of Dr. L. S. Shtikh was cancelled.

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**MEMORANDUM TO YA. M. SVERDLOV**¹

To Sverdlov: I request that you appoint an investigation.

January 20, [1919] Lenin

¹ Written on a covering memorandum from the secretary of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic concerning the transmission of a copy of a telegram from the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Tribunal of the Caspian-Caucasus Front Lukashevich dated January 13, 1919, in which violations of legality by individual members of the Tsaritsyn Extraordinary Commission in Tsarev District of Astrakhan Province were reported.

On the document there is a notation by Ya. M. Sverdlov: "An investigation has already been entrusted to Romanov and Radus-Zenkovitch, who are in Astrakhan."

Further down there is a notation by V. I. Lenin: "Archive."